intergrade 
intergrade (in'ter-grad), w. [< inter- + 
n.] ,An intermediate grade. 
That nephele, north of the belt, breeds true, is certain, 
because the intergrades and alope are not found here. 
Nature, XXXIX. 194. 
intergrowth (in'ter-groth), n. [< inter- + 
growth.'] A growing together; a growth be- 
tween. 
There are not wanting signs of an intergrowth of the 
two minerals. Geol. Jour., XLIV. 449. 
intergyral (in-ter-ji'ral), . [< inter- + gyrus 
+ -al.] Situated between gyri of the brain. 
interhemal, interhaemal (in-ter-he'mal), a. 
and n. [< inter- + hemal.] I. a. Situated 
between hemal spines. -internemal bone, inter- 
hemal spine, in ichth., one of the dermal bones or spines 
which support the rays of the median or unpaired fins of 
fishes on the hemal or lower side of the body : so called 
from their situation deep in the flesh between hemal spines. 
See interneural. 
II. M. An interhemal bone. 
A series of interfuemals. Encyc. Brit., XII. 641. 
interhemicerebral (in-ter-hem-i-ser'e-bral), a. 
[< inter- + hemieerebnim.] Situated between 
the hemispheres of the brain. 
interhyal (in-ter-hl'al), a. and n. [< inter- + 
hy(oid) + -al.] I. a. Situated between or among 
parts of the hyoid arch of a fish, in relation 
with the hyomandibular and symplectic bones. 
The lower part of the [hyoid] arch retains its connec- 
tion with the upper part, in fishes, by means of an inter- 
hyal piece. Stand. Nat. Hist., III. 21. 
II. n. An intermediate osseous or cartilagi- 
nous element of the hyoid arch of a fish, con- 
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interjectural 
side of anything that limits, incloses, or con- 
ceals; internal; further toward a center: op- 
posed to exterior or superficial: as, the interior 
parts of a house or of the earth. 
Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred, 
That in your outward action shows itself. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 3, 65. 
This fall of the monarchy was far from being preceded 
BwtrA'R'egicide'pet'ceT interjaculate (in-ter-jak'u-lat), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. interjaculated, ppr. interjaculating. [< inter- 
jacere, lie: seejacent. Of. adjacent, etc.] Lying 
or being between ; intervening: as, interjacent 
isles. 
Observations made at the feet, tops, and interjacent parts 
of high mountains. Boyle, Works, I. 89. 
The Saxon forces were employed in subduing the mid- 
land parts of Britain, interjacent between their two first 
established colonies. Sir W. Temple, Hist. England, Int. 
2. Inland ; remote from the limits, frontier, or 
shore: as, the interior parts of a country; an 
interior town. 3. Of or pertaining to that 
which is within ; inside: as, an interior view. 
+ jaculate.] To ejaculate in the midst of con- 
versation; interject (a remark). 
" Dieu ! que n'ai-je pu le voir? " interjaculates Made- 
moiselle. Thackeray, Newcomes, vii. 
(in-ter-jang'gl), v. i. ; pret. and pp. 
perceive within one's self; inward; inner; in- 
most; mental. 
The Earle of Northumberlande . . . began secretely 
to communicate his interior imaginacions and priuie 
thoughtes with Richard Scrop, Archebishop of Yorke 
Han, Hen. IV., an. 6. 
Rather desiryng soner to die then lenger to Hue, and 
perauenture for this cause, that her interiour iye sawe 
priuily, and gaue to her a secrete monicion of the great 
calamities and aduersities which then did hang ouer her 
hed. Hall, Edw. IV., an. 10. 
Sense, inmost, interior, internal. This was introduced, 
as a convertible term with consciousness in general, by the 
philosophers of the Cartesian school, and thus came to be 
frequently applied to denote the source, complement, or 
revelation of immediate truths. It is however not only 
in itself vague, but is liable to be confounded with in- 
ternal sense in other very different significations. We 
i another. 
The divers disagreeing cords 
Of interjangling ignorance. Daniel, Musophilus. 
(in-ter-jekt'),r. [< L. interjectus, pp. 
of interjacere, interjicere, throw between, put 
between, < inter, between, + jacere, throw: see 
jet 1 . Cf. abject, adject, conject, deject, eject, in- 
ject, etc.] I. trans. To throw in between other 
things; insert; interpolate. 
But Athryilatus, the physician, a Thasian born, inter- 
jected some stay of farther searching into this cause. 
Holland,, tr. of Plutarch, p. 564. 
II. intrans. To come between; interpose. 
[Rare.] 
The confluence of soldiers, interjecting, rescued him. 
Sir G. Buck, Hist Rich. III., p. 61. 
"* v"v>m^j j jijv/i^ srnai sense in otner very amerent significations. We 
necting its upper and lower parts, in relation need not therefore regret that in this relation it has not interjection (in-ter-jek'shon), n. [= P. inter- 
with the hyomandibular and symplectic bones ; S h "f, h p?- u tchf ? on set an example) been naturalized in j ec tio(n-) = Pr. inter jectio = Sp. interjeceion = 
an element connecting the hyomandibular with StrW. Hamuton. r>~ .-,.--.. Ti '.-.-,.'. 
the branchiostegal arch. 
interim (iu'ter-im), adv. [L., in the mean 
while, meantime, < inter, between, + *im, equiv. 
to eum, ace. of is, that: see he 1 .] In the mean 
while ; meantime. 
I hope some gentleman will soon be appointed in my 
room here who is better able to serve the publick than I 
am. Interim, I am, gentlemen, your most obedient ser- 
vant, 
Benedict Arnold, Letter, May 23, 1775 (Amer. Archives). 
interim (in'ter-im), n. and a. [< interim, adv.'] 
1. n. 1. The mean time; time intervening. 
Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 
Shak., J. C., ii. 1, 64. 
2. A provisional arrangement for the settle- 
ment of religious differences between Protes- 
the sun. Interior screw, a screw cut on the interior 
surface of anything hollow, as a nut or a tap-hole. In- 
terior slope, in Sort., the slope from the superior slope 
to the treaa of the banquette. See cut under parapet. 
= Svn. Inward, Internal, etc. See inner. 
II. n. 1. The internal part ; the inside. 
The fool multitude, that choose by show, 
Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, 
Which pries not to th' interior. 
Shot., M. of V., ii. 9, 28. 
2. In art: (a) An inside part of a building, 
terjecting. 2. The act of ejaculating, exclaim- 
ing, or forcibly uttering. 
Laughing causeth a continual expulsion of the breath, 
with the loud noise which maketh the interjection of laugh- 
ing. Bacon. 
3. In gram., an interjected or exclamatory 
word ; a word thrown in between other words 
or expressions, but having no grammatical re- 
lation to them, or used independently, to indi- 
cate some access of emotion or passion, and 
considered as a whole from the point of view commonly emphasized to the eye in writing by 
of artistic design or general effect, convenience, 
etc. 
a mark of exclamation, as oh! ah! alas! hur- 
rah ! Interjections are regarded as constituting a part 
of speech by themselves, although they are properly no 
"part of speech," but holophrastic utterances, originally 
more or less instinctive, though coming, like the rest of 
speech, to be used conventionally. Some interjections, 
tants and Roman Catholics in Germany during Tne re is a grandeur and a simplicity in the proportions 
the Reformation epoch, pending a definite set? Stt^Sy?tfffla3^S?Sffi 
tlement by a church council. There were three in- J. Fergmson, Hist. Arch. I 311 
ffig&ttj^vsss^&g. < A r 'r of -r h , an in . c i. sed ^ & ^ of Sssss &^^^^^^ 
burg Interim, proclaimed also by Charles V., May 15th 1548 -'" v anKinnt <./%T,OI/IOO^ .,o ,.,ui.;,, 1 :_.i_ 
but not carried out by many Protestants ; and the Leipsic 
wr^r^^^r^s^rS <***>******.-* mt.^-^-^^^ ~ 
anrl -i-LiiliUfli.L.l no 4-U<i. r>,,^*. T_i. i._ V i. -, " ., fit* Sr.a.Tft W til An ia or a n/trtoisiat>a Kl a ^1ici4-n-nnA A T 
, 
and published as the Greater Interim in March, 1649 ; it 
met with strenuous opposition. Eeligious toleration was 
secured for the Lutherans by the peace of Passau, 1662. 
II. . Belonging to or connected with an in- 
tervening period of time; temporary: as. an 
interim order. 
The first and second interim reports of the Royal Com- 
any subject considered as within such an inclo- 
sure, or under the conditions of lighting, etc., 
obtaining therein. 3. That part of a country 
or state which is at a considerable distance 
from its frontiers. 
Her frontier was terrible, her interiour feeble. 
Burke, A Regicide Peace, ii. 
In some regions . . . rivers afford, if not the only means 
of access to the interior, still by far the easiest means. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 112. 
im factor, 
service, 
of a bai 
tor, to preservi 
This practice' , 
ing a judicial factor. 
interimist (in'ter-im-ist), n. 
Abbreviated inter}. 
Dij vestram fldem, O good Lord, it standeth always in 
the place of an interjection of meruayling, and not of call- 
Udatt, Flowers (trans.), fol. 98. 
As I am cholerick, I forbear not only swearing, but all 
interjections of fretting, as pugh ! pish 1 and the like. 
Tatter, No. 1. 
4. A manner or means of expressing emotion 
with the effect of an interjection. [Rare.] 
"He rent his garments " (which was the interjection of 
the country, and custom of the nation). 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 293. 
interjectional (in-ter-jek'shon-al), a. [< inter- 
-al.'] 1. Thrown "in "between other 
wardness. [Rare.] 
... [< interim + -lst.~\ He had been a breaker of the law in its essential spirit, 
Eccles. , a German Protestant who accepted one m w 8 te >*!'. "g. tne w y through- 
of the interims. H ~ W ' Beecher - Hymouth Pulpit, March 19, 1884, p. 496. 
interimistic (in'ter-i-mis'tik), a. [< interimist interiorly (in-te'ri-or-li), adv. In the interior 
+ -4c.] Pertaining to the decree of Charles V. P art ! internally; inwardly, 
in 1548 at Augsburg, known as the Interim or The . di e nature sustains and interiourly nourisheth 
to the subsequent agreement of Melanchthon ^ things - Donne, Hist. Septuagint, p. 205. 
and others partially in accord with this. inter j. An abbreviation of interjection. 
The Emperor had strongly urged upon the ambassadors iaterjacenee (in-ter-ja'sens), n. [< interjacent t) 
imlfe doctrine* ' reUgion a(?reeable to the !& . t ^ A l ^S . or *?g between. 
Byrchman, to Bullinger, Dec., 1649, in R. W. Dixon, Hist. 
ily by the in- 
[Church of Eng., HI. 98, note 
interinhibitive (in'ter-iu-hib'i-tiv) n IV ,' . England and Scotland [are] . . . divided only 1 
ter- + inhibitive.] Mutually inhibitive ^<^ncy of the Tweed and some desert groun^. 
An impairment of the interinhibitim functions 
Mauddey, Body and Will, p. 267. 
interior (in-te'ri-pr), a. and n. [Early mod. E 
... WJH. ifofe. 
2. That which is interposed or lies between. 
[Rare.] 
should both evangelists make the same interjectional sug- 
gestion at the same place ? 
J. A. Alexander, On Mark xiii. 14. 
2. Partaking of the character of an interjec- 
** on ' consisting in or characterized by excla- 
mations. 
Demosthenes, ... in an interjectional form, . . . in- 
vokes the vengeance of the gods on Philip of Macedon. 
<?. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xiii. 
The staccato sharpness of interjectional croaks and brit- 
tle calls from the river edge and swamp. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 48. 
1. Same as interjectionally (in-ter-jek'shon-al-i), adv. In 
an interjectional manner ; by way of interjec- 
tion. 
she had said interjectionally to her sister, " It would he 
a mercy, Fanny, if that girl were well married !" 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, ix. 
interjectionary (iu-ter-jek'shon-a-ri), a. [ < i ii- 
'inter- 
in tf i-- 
ii terject) 
